Satellite News

EchoStar Asia Holdings Corporation, a subsidiary of EchoStar Communications Corporation , announced it has invested US$40 million in TU Media Corp., South Korea’s only operator of satellite digital multimedia broadcasting (S-DMB) services.

Orbital Sciences Corporation announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2006.

Aerojet has delivered a new generation of 4.5 kilowatt Hall thrusters — the highest power flight-qualified Hall thrusters in the world — to Lockheed Martin Space Systems in support of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Air Force mission.

Boeing has successfully completed a critical design review of key Ultra High Frequency (UHF) payload subsystems for the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) programme. Boeing will provide its Legacy UHF payload to Lockheed Martin, prime contractor for the MUOS programme.

JAXA said that the launch of an H-2A rocket to carry a radar spy satellite has been rescheduled for 24 February local time, citing predicted poor weather around the Kagoshima Prefecture launch site.

International Launch Services (ILS) announced that EchoStar Communications Corporation will launch a satellite in 2008 on a Proton Briz M vehicle. But which one?

The questionable world/space record China achieved in January by blowing up one of its old weather satellites may have been short-lived. A Russian upper stage blew up in orbit on 19 February, possibly creating even more space junk than the Chinese ASAT test — or any other breakup event.